If the data is located in form fields then PrintTextLocations is not going
to be helpful, but you don't need it.
Accessing form fields using PDFBox is very easy. You can use this code
example to print out the field names and their values to the console:
PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(fileName);
PDDocumentCatalog docCatalog = pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog();
PDAcroForm acroForm = docCatalog.getAcroForm();
List fields = acroForm.getFields();
Iterator fieldsIter = fields.iterator();
while (fieldsIter.hasNext()) {
PDField field = (PDField) fieldsIter.next();
System.out.println(field.getPartialName() + ":" + field.getValue());
}
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Al Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for some help. I am reporting this because I can add some more
> information.
>
> I have a form (a sample of which you can view here :
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3rjaapNHpJJa1pfc1l1M2NzSEk/view?usp=sharing
> )
>
> Basically the information in the form is tabular. My reading so far tells
> me I should using extract text by area and to get those coordinates
> printtextlocations.
>
> If any developers out there are able to help, since my coding skills are
> rusty I would really appreciate it.
>
> Even if it was just a sample of code for one field which I can then copy
> and reuse.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Al
>
>
> --
> "Beat it punk!"
> - Clint Eastwood
>
